Old Ruby Place Nears Completion In Texas

Willington News Notes

September 11, 1995

The Old Ruby Place, which was moved from the property where the Roadway Package Services truck terminal is being built to Texas, is nearing completion for its owners.

John and Edith O'Neill, who bought the house approximately five years ago, are rebuilding the 1769 house in Fredricksburg, Texas. The house was taken apart by a moving company that specializes in old houses and the pieces were shipped to their new location by a tractor-trailer.

The structure, which stood near I-84, was home to many generations of the Ruby family and was built by Thomas Royce, the only man from Willington known to have served in the Navy during the American Revolution.

The O'Neills have rebuilt the house exactly as it stood in Willington, with the addition of a tin roof instead of a shingled roof. Hail storms that are common in Texas would have ruined the old roof, according to the O'Neills.